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08.27.2021 News

As industry faces shortage of direct support professionals, officials call for renewed efforts to aid ‘forgotten’ essential workers

RISE Life Services of Riverhead and representatives from the East End Disability Associates warned of a workforce crisis and called for federal financial assistance to combat the problem at...

04.16.2020 COVID-19

Unsung heroes continue to staff East End Disability in the face of COVID-19

Ever since Hurricane Katrina, Joy O’Shaughnessy has wrestled with a recurring nightmare — that a catastrophic event would prevent her staff at East End Disability Associates from serving their...

03.17.2016 Government

$15 minimum wage proposal may ‘destroy’ nonprofits serving disabled

One day before a rally last week in Hauppauge, Debbie Woodley, a senior direct support professional for East End Disability Associates’ creative arts program in Riverhead, took a client...

05.24.2014 Columns

Column: Because one man believed they could

“The parents are always in tears,” said Matthew Kuriloff, the 35-year-old coordinator of East End Disability Associates’ Community Arts Program. The downtown Riverhead nonprofit launched its theater and arts...

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As industry faces shortage of direct support professionals, officials call for renewed efforts to aid ‘forgotten’ essential workers

Unsung heroes continue to staff East End Disability in the face of COVID-19

$15 minimum wage proposal may ‘destroy’ nonprofits serving disabled

Column: Because one man believed they could